Mind Webs - A Taste Of Dostiefsky
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Mind Webs - A Taste Of Dostiefsky

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 29, 202630 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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I was very happy to see that the See you next time! Welcome to a half hour of Mind Web. stories from the worlds of speculative fiction.

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The story this time is from a book edited by Terry Carr titled On Our Way to the Future, a story that appeared in 1967 in the book New Writings in Science Fiction 10. It's A Taste for Dostoyevsky by Brian W. Aldis. He was nearly out to spaceship now, had slithered down the crater wall and was staggering across

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the few feet of broken rock that separated him from safety. He moved with a manic action of someone compensating for light gravity. His gauntleted hand stretched out before him. He blundered clumsily against the outcropping teeth of rock and fell on them.

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